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All four exchanged glances.One name.Xului.Not a name that had ever appeared in any conversation any of the four could recall. Not a sect name, not a known figure, not a name that fell into any category of things that ordinarily factored into a decision about where to join.Chen Beixing looked at Caelan the way someone examines whether there's another layer behind the words just heard—something hidden beneath what's visible.But he found nothing except exactly what was said.Dao Tianyue raised an eyebrow slightly.Lei Qinghe went still.And at the far end, Feng Lianhun—Something moved in his face.Not shock. Not immediate recognition. More like something that existed somewhere in his memory—not close but not very far either—that needed a few seconds to be pulled to the surface."The Xului you mean—" His voice came out quietly, in a way that showed he was verifying, not asking. "—is he an old healer with long white hair?" His eyes didn't move from Caelan. "And there's a small mark n
Chapter 344
Lei Qinghe's words fell into the arena like a stone into water.And the ripple spread in every direction. To the stands, to the pavilions, to everyone standing and sitting and still processing what they had witnessed in the past two minutes.Join one of the Five Great Sects?!That wasn't a sentence that could simply be accepted. It was a sentence that needed to be pulled from the ear and held up in front of the eyes for another examination—because this kind of sentence didn't come out often, never came out without a very large reason, and was never directed at someone who had only just appeared today from a sect that wasn't on anyone's list of names worth considering.In the stands, the shock was there, but it wasn't alone.There was something behind it that was denser—something without a pleasant name but very real. Envy that couldn't be suppressed even when someone knew suppressing it was what they should be doing.Joining one of the Five Great Sects was something spoken of in dream
Chapter 343
Caelan looked at the more than twenty people moving toward him.From various angles—with different weapons, with spiritual energy at varying intensities, with the same calculation in each of their heads.Faces that didn't hide what they were thinking because there was no need to hide it when the numbers on their side felt so reasonable.Caelan drew one breath.Then vanished.Didn't jump. Didn't run. No transition that could be reconstructed from the last visible position to the next one. There was only the last visible position, and then there was nothing there anymore.Caelan's sudden disappearance sent every one of those attacks into empty air.Truly empty air. No body, no robe, no resistance from anything that should have been there.An axe swung through a space already vacated. A sword thrust found the stone floor. A punch released with full spiritual energy hit something that didn't exist.More than twenty people stood with weapons already drawn, surrounding a center that was emp
Chapter 342
One second.Two.Then the stands erupted.Not gradually—this was an eruption that had been waiting since Li Mingzhi hit the protective array, held back for two seconds by the collective shock of twenty thousand people who all needed nearly the same amount of time to process what had just happened in front of their eyes."INCREDIBLE!""I HAVE NEVER SEEN A FIGHT LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!""TWELVE SLASHES—TWELVE!—AND NOT A SINGLE ONE LANDED!""HE BEAT LI MINGZHI! LI MINGZHI!"The voices were uneven, uncoordinated, with no single source that could be pointed to. This was the sound of thousands of people all speaking at the same moment about the same thing in different ways—cheering mixed with shouting mixed with outcries, all of it producing a noise that filled the entire arena from the lowest tier of the stands to the highest.Some stood—without realizing it, with the way feet make decisions before the head has a chance to be consulted—and yelled in ways that didn't reflect how they n
Chapter 341
In the stands, no one made a sound.Because what they were witnessing had no easy words to describe it.Twelve slashes each sufficient on its own to end a fight—not one touching its target, not because the target was running but because the target was always one position ahead, faster than each slash could arrive at where the target should still have been.Seventh, eighth, ninth—Still nothing landed.The frustration on Li Mingzhi's face was no longer something that could be hidden. His best technique, one that had never failed in hundreds of fights before this, that required most of what he had to draw out—and not a single slash had touched the fabric of the man across from him.Tenth, eleventh—Then—The twelfth slash.The last one.The strongest.All the spiritual energy remaining from the eleven slashes before it—each of which had already spent a small portion—now channeled into one final strike.This wasn't eleven times the first slash. This was everything that remained gathered
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Li Mingzhi stood.One long breath—controlled, in the way of someone drawing something up from a place that wasn't shallow. His left hand came down from his chest. The expression that had shown something new returned to one more practiced.He tightened his grip on his sword hilt.In his head, the calculation was complete.The fight so far had been enough to produce one conclusion that couldn't be avoided: the man across from him was too strong to defeat by ordinary means.Everything Li Mingzhi had already put out—speed, precision, technique that had taken years to build—wasn't enough to break through a defense that never looked like a defense because there was nothing to defend when attacks never arrived.There was one technique he hadn't used yet.Not because he didn't want to, but because that technique carried a cost that wasn't small—drawing it out too early in this tournament meant entering the subsequent rounds in a condition far from ideal.But not drawing it out meant acknowled
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